Sigla: Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers. | P. Würzburg inv. 42 |
Category: Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. | Magical (applied) |
Contents: | 1. Ro ll. 1-21: Binding, silencing curse against Semne daughter of Coron for Victor son of Koheu. |
Language(s): | Egyptian (Coptic) |
Script(s): | Coptic |
Dialect: | Sahidic |
Language/dialect notes: | Bélanger Sarrazin (2017: p. 391). |
Date: Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. | 901 – 1000 |
Date notes: | Brunsch 1978: p. 151. |
Archive/collection: Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. | |
Archive name: | |
State of edition: | Published. |
Image: | https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/WrzPapyri_schrift_00000270 |
Form: | Sheet |
Material: | Paper |
Dimensions (cm): | Height: 14.7 | Width: 11.5 | Depth: |
Dimensions (notes): | Brunsch (1978: p. 151) |
Folding pattern: | 8 vertical creases (?), 2 horizontal creases (?). |
State of preservation: | Complete, minor damage. |
Pages/Columns: Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices. | 2 |
Pages/Columns (notes): | 1 column each recto and verso, but verso is abandoned attempt at recto text. 21 lines on recto, 1 lines and image on verso. |
Hand: |
Findspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Place of purchase: | (TM places ID: ) |
Writingspot: | Egypt (TM places ID: 49) |
Present Location: | Würzburg, Universität |
Collection History: | Purchased by Friedrich Prym through U. Wilcken in the early twentieth century, alongside various papyri in Greek, Egyptian (including Demotic and Coptic, and a Book fo the Dead, presumably in Traditional Egyptian) and Arabic (Brunsch 1978: p. 151). |
Trismegistos collection: Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. | 369 |
Collection website: | https://papyri.uni-leipzig.de/receive/WrzPapyri_schrift_00000270 |
Notes/Discussion: |
Bibiliography |
Editions: | Brunsch, Wolfgang. “Ein koptischer Bindezauber.” Enchoria 8 (1978): 151-157. |
Translations: | Meyer, Marvin W., and Richard Smith. Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 1999, p. 209, no. 102. |
General: | Gill, Ann-Katrin. The hieratic ritual books of Pawerem (P. BM EA 10252 and P. BM EA 10081) from the late 4th century BC. Wiesbaden, 2019, p. 595-596. |
Trismegistos ID: | 99598 |
PAThs: |
PGM: Papyri Gracae Magicae | SM: Supplementum Magicum | GEMF: Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) | ACM: Ancient Christian Magic | 102 |
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Bélanger Sarrazin: Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” | 122 |
AKZ: Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte | CBd: Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database | Mert.-Pack: Mertens-Pack online database | |||
Van H: van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires | Bruyn-Dijkstra: de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" | TheDefix: Thesaurus Defixionum | To Zodion: |
Edit History: | KD (5/12/2018); EL (14/6/2019); MPS (16/9/2019); MPS (28/8/2020); KD (12/4/2021) |